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clause they live off dead seals. They are even responsible for the death of 

 baby seals, although they refuse to admit it. When a baby seal is left motherless, 

 it dies of starvation. How could anyone be so cruel? Seals have feelings, they 

 love their babies, they care ; but they're slaughtered. How would you feel if your 

 family, your Children, were slaughtered before your eyes? Hitler did it for his 

 girlfriend Use Koch. And it's still being done by Human Hitlers, (or should I 

 say inhuman Hitlers) who order and support the slaughter of nature's creatures. 

 There is no difference, I swear, there just is no difference. 



The Fouke Company has accused us of acting purely on emotion, instead of 

 using logic. Don't believe it. We use both. The Pribilof Islands could be made 

 into a wildlife sanctuary, with the Aleuts employed to protect the seals, rather 

 than to murder them. And then there are Fouke's figures on seal population. 

 Actually, the population has increased very little, if any, since 1911. And not 

 only that; in the last ten years the birthrate has dropped 52%. Then the Fouke 

 Company says the Harris-Pryor bill will leave the fur seal to open sea killing. 

 Another falsehood. The bill calls for an international treaty ending the killing 

 of ocean mammals, and bans importation of seal coats into the U.S. where 

 the main market lies. And to top it all off, we were forced to pay two million 

 dollars last year to support this barbarism, and this year we may have to pay even 

 more. So much for not using logic. 



As far as the polar bear goes, killing it is immoral, completely unnecessary, 

 and foolish. If we go on like this, we'll only be adding another name to the long 

 list of animals gone extinct at the hand of man. This reasoning applies to all 

 ocean mammals. 



So now it's up to you. You've been given some power to help change this 

 world. Are you going to use it? Or are you going to show your foolishness again 

 by supporting big business, and forgetting about what's right and what's wrong. 

 Just put yourself in the animals' position, and imagine how you would feel if 

 you were the ones being slaughtered. 



By JiMMT Berbnholtz (age 14). 



Mr. DiNGELL. The Chair will announce at this time, because of the 

 shortness of time, that we will afford everyone an opportunity to make 

 additional insertions in the record, and the record will remain open 

 for the period of time necessary to have that done. 



Miss Herrington. I would thank particularly Mr. Pryor for his 

 great leadership and his firmness in holding to what is a real symbol 

 of the new morality which must take place in this country. 



I sincerely hope that this committee will report this bill out. 



You know, we are not stuck on the particular wording of it, but the 

 principles, the firm principles it must retain are the ban on the killing 

 of ocean mammals by Americans, individuals or corporations, a ban 

 on the importation of all products, raw or finished, from these creatures 

 so as to remove the incentive for all other countries to kill. 



Third, we take the leadership perhaps; maybe we are second with 

 regard to some of these animals since Russia has protected the polar 

 bear and porpoise since the mid l&50's. 



Through all powers, which we have a great many, let us get the Har- 

 ris-Pryor passed and into law. 



Thank you. 



Mr. DiNGELL. Thank you very much. 



Mr. Pelly. Mr. Chairman, can I ask a question, or offer a comment ? 



I am not rising up in support of the State Department. I do not 

 know whether the State Department has ever received much in the 

 way of praise from me, but I am concerned that if this treaty expires 

 there will be a vacuum, and in that vacuum, nations like Japan who 

 have no regard for conservation will step in and deplete the seal herd. 

 And, therefore, I would simply ask you, Miss Herrington, to consider 

 possibly changing your position to extending temporarily a treaty 

 during the interval that we might be negotiating a new one, because I 

 know what has happened with these nations which are not conserva- 



